HebrewH6016Noun (Masculine)

עֹ֫מֶר

o.mer

14Occurrences
H6016Strong's #
Noun (Masculine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

properly, a heap, i.e. a sheaf; also an omer, as a dry measure

from H6014 (עָמַר);

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
sheaf

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun (Masculine)

Morphology Code

H:N-M

Full Description

H:N-M

Occurrences

עֹ֫מֶר appears 14 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Exodus
6
Leviticus
4
Ruth
2
Deuteronomy
1
Job
1

Key Passages

Deuteronomy 24:19BSB

If you are harvesting in your field and forget a sheaf there, do not go back to get it. It is to be left for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, so that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.

Exodus 16:18BSB

When they measured it by the omer, he who gathered much had no excess, and he who gathered little had no shortfall. Each one gathered as much as he needed to eat.

Exodus 16:32BSB

Moses said, “This is what the LORD has commanded: ‘Keep an omer of manna for the generations to come, so that they may see the bread I fed you in the wilderness when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.’”

Exodus 16:36BSB

(Now an omer is a tenth of an ephah.)

Leviticus 23:10BSB

“Speak to the Israelites and say, ‘When you enter the land that I am giving you and you reap its harvest, you are to bring to the priest a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest.

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